BackWoods Drifter

This coming week is gonna be an outdoor kinda week for me for sure.
The first part of the week I am going looking for a long lost cemetery. Due to it’s expected location, I can’t really go into great detail about the cemetery until after I return. But hopefully I’ll be successful and can tell [...]

While in Whitesville a couple of days ago I had the opportunity to visit another old cemetery. This one is located on the side of the mountain between Whitesville and Sylvester.

This site was full of anonymity. Each burial site marked with a stone. Someone had been kind enough to mark a couple of the sites [...]

So – I stole the name for this post from Zeppelin – it just fits.
This is actually the first of two posts and both of them deal with West Virginia history from the late 19th century through the early 20th century.
I had the unexpected pleasure of visiting Kayford Mountain today and some areas of historical [...]